Conveyer



No 4, 1924. Lslrsa?y G. LUFKIN CONVEYER Filed July 2l. 1921: .'5 Sheets-Sheet l Il I limit G. LUFKIN CONVEYER Nov, 4f, 1924.

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UNITED STATES 1,513,837 PATENT GFFlCE GARLAND LUFKIH, O'F SAND SPRINGS, OKLAHOll/XA, ASSIGNOR T@ ALEXANDER H. KEER, GE' SANYO FSPRIEEGS, GKLAHOl/IA.

CONVEYEB.

Application filed July 21,

To r/,ZZ lwhom4 it may concern.'

Be it known that I, Gannarn LUFKIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sand tilprings, in the county of rfalsa and State of i klahoma, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Conveyers, of which the following is a specification.

My inventiony relates to devices for conveying articles of glass from a molding machine into a leer or annealing oven and has reference particularly to mechanism for distributing the articles onto the leer pans.

In making glass articles it is customary7 after they have been formed, to pass them through an annealing oven by depositing them on a somewhat wide conveyer, which travels at a slow rate through the leer or .oven` and it is desirable to distribute the articles on t-he leer conveyer entirely across the width thereof.

The principal objects of my invention are 4to provide improved mechanism for conveying and distributingijars or other glass articles on the leer conveyer; to minimize the danger o'fmarring or' checking the articles in depositing them on the leer conv'eyerrto provide improved eject-ing mechanism for transfer 1ing the bottle from the conveyer to th'e'leer;v and in general, to provideimproved mechanism of simple constructijon and which is effective to transfer aud distribute or bottles onto the leer conveyer in a more satisfactmyv manner than heretofore.

On the drawings Figfl is a top view of a jar conveying anddischargingfdevice embodying my improvements and showing the ejector in the initial position;

'Fig'. 2, a similar View showing the ejector in the final position;

Fig. 3, a side view of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1 taken on the line 3 3;

Fig. 4, a front elevation of the ejector and.v

Fig. 5, a sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

`Referring to the drawings the reference numeral 1 indicates ythe leer conveyer7 which travels through the leer or annealingoven 2 in the usual manner, this conveyer being composed' of a plurality of leer pans 3, which entend crosswise of the oven and. are trained around pulleys or wheels 4.

Lilfling into the forward end. of the anY 1321. Serial No. 486,331.

nealing oven is a bottle or jar conveyer comprising a chain 5 which passes around a large sprocket 6 in the end of the annealing' oven and another sprocket at a dist-ance therefrom and has a plurality of bottle'supports 8 in the form of paddles, which are spaced apart a distance equal to one fourth of the circumference of the sprocket 6. The remote end of the conveyer is preferably located adjacent the bottle forming machine so that as the bottles or jars are formed they may be placed en the con- `veyery 5 and transferredy directly to the annealing oven. The sprocket 6 extends over the receiving end of the leer conveyer 1 as shown in Figs. l. 2 and 3, so that'the paddles or supp-forts 8 move directly ever a stationary shelf or shield 9 which fits over the receiving end of the conveyer land is substantially semicircular, to .form anapron extending radially outward beyond the path of the conveyer supports 8H.

The conveyer mmay be operated in" any suitable manner as for example by a belt 10 passing around a belt wheel 11 and operating the shaft`12 through beveled gears i 13 and 1a', said shaft 12 being journaled in an upright position yand having the sprocket 7 xed thereon.v The sprocket 6 is fixed on a shaft 15 journaled bearings 16 and 17 carried by brackets 22 vand 23v respectively on they inlet end of the oven 2 and rotates with the sprocket 7.. Securedto the upper end of the shaft l5 is a small spur gearilS meshing' with a spur gear I19, which is fixed on the shaft 20 jourualed in a bearing 21 at the outer end of the bracket 23, the spur gear 19 being twice as large as the spur gear 18 so that the shaft 2O makes one half a revolution while the shaft 15 is making one. Loosely mounted on the shaft 15 is a hub or sleeve 24, which has an arm 25 provided Awith a longitudinal slot 26 engaged by the pin 27 at the outer end of the cra-nk arm. 28 which latter is fixed on the lower end of the shaft 20. The hub 24 is formed with a bracket 2 9 integral therewith or fixed thereto so as to be oscillated by the slotted arm 25 and is disposed somewhatA laterally from the anis of the hub 24 and provided at opposite ends with spaced upwardly eX- tending arms 30 between which upper and lower rollers 31 and 3 2 are interposed so as to form a guide within which bar 33 is arranged to reciprocate. This bar, beyond the frame 29,-is bent downwardly as at 34 and formed at the lower end with a shoe 35, the

lower edge of which tern'iinates just above the upper surface of the paddles or su pp-orts 8 so that the shoe may reciprocate thereover and more the jars off of the supports onto the apron 9 and then onto the leer conveyer 1. The forward end ofthis shoe is curved inwardly as at 36 and cut away on the underside as at 37 so as to extend back over the sprocket 6 when the bar 33 is fully retracted7 and thus insure the passage of the jars on the supports 8 at the outer side of the shoe; 1 j For effecting-reciprocatory movement of the bar so as to eject the jars fromthe supports 8 a crank shaft 38 is journaled in the frame or bracket 29 and has a crank 39 thereon adapted to rotate between the pairs of arms 30 at opposite ends of the frame, and this crank arm'has a pin 40 at the outer end, which projects into an elongated transverse slot 41'in a widened portion of the bar 33 so as to cause the bar 83 to be reciprocated by rotation of the crank shaft 38. lThis latter shaft has a pinion 42 fixed on the lower end and meshing with a spur gear 43 which is pinned or otherwise secured on the shaft 15 yto rotate therewith, said gears being proportioned so that each revolution of the shaft 15 and gear 43 thereony causeszthe gear 42 and crank shaft 38 to make four complete revolutions.

In the operation of this device the arm 34 is slowly swung from the position shown in Figure 1 to the position shown in Figure 2 so as to transiter jars from the carriers 8 at vspaced points across the leer conveyer 1, and is given reciprocatory movements during its passage from'one side of the leer conveyer to the other so as to push the-jars `oft of the supports 8 onto the apron 9 and then onto the leer conveyer 1. This swinging movement of the pusher .bar v33 takes place while the crank arm 28 is lmoving'from the position shown in full` lines in Figure 1, to the position shown in dottedvlines, which is substantially 270O and the return movement ofthe pusher arm from the position shown in Fig. 2 to the position shown in Fig. 1 is elfected while the crank arm 28 lis moving from the dotted line position in Fig. 1 to the full line positionor a distance I k*of 90", thereby effecting the return movev ment quite rapidly so that the return movement of the shoe 35 precedes the advance of the next succeeding jar support 8 and positions the ejectorin place to eject the jar -45 from said support 8 when the latter reaches the far side lof the leer conveyer. Because of the ratio of the gears 18 and 19 two revolutions of the shaft 15 are required to cause a single revolutionof the shaft 2O and as the clockwise swing of the pusher bar 33 and ejector shoe 3.5 takes place dur-A ing a 270' movement of the shaft 20, one and one half revolutions of the shaft 15 are required to eifect the clockwise swing of Athe pusher bar 33T while theV return movenext support 8 vupon which a jar is located to the position in front vofthe ejector shoe 35 so that the operation of the latter at the end of its return movement will transfer the jar therefrom. The shoe 35 then slowly swings and at the same time supports 8 with jars thereon are successively ybrought to a position .in front of the shoe ,35 which7 as. each jar moves to a position in front thereofji's reciprocated so as to eject thejar from thesupport 8. v

lVhile I have shown and described my invention in a preferred formvI am aware that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from .the principles of my invention. I claim as my invention: v 1. In a device of the class described the. combination of leer pans, -a conveyer and means* forV transferring` articles fromthe conveyer tothe leer pans comprising a member movable from side to 'slide of the leer pans and reciprocable transversely of ,its path of movement. v r f.

2. In a device of theI classdescribedfthe fio v combination of leer-pans, a conveyer, and

versely lof the path of the conveyer for transferring articles therefrom to the leer pans.v f r:

`In a-device ofthe class describedthe combination of leerpans, a conveyer, a stationaryv apron` interposed between the leer` pans and the conveyer, means on4 the conveyer for supporting articles independently of the apron, and an ejector fortransferring articles from said means onto the yapron and .thereafter onto the leer pans. i

4. In a device of the class described the combination of leer pans7 a conveyerj an` ejector movable along the' path of the conveyer adjacent the leer pans land mechanism for successively reciprocating the ejector at spaced points along its path of move-ment .so as to transfer articles from the conveyer at different pomts onto the leer pans.

for said articles, an ejector movable in a direction opposite to that of the convever and at a slower rate and mechanism i'or reciprocating said ejector across the path of movement of the conveyer as each conveyer support reaches a position adjacent thereto so as to transfer the article from the support onto the said means.

6. In a device of the cla-ss described the combination of an annealing oven having a Wide carrier for moving articles slowly through the annealing oven, a Wheel extending over the forward end of the carrier and having a conveyer passing therearound so as to move in a curved path across the forward end of the carrier, supports on the conveyer for articles to be passed through the annealing` oven, a frame oscillatable on an axis concentric with the axis of the Wheel, means for imparting slow movement of the frame in a direction opposite to that of the conveyer, an ejector mounted on said frame to reciprocate transversely of the path of the conveyer, and mechanism synchronized with the conveyer to transfer an article from each conveyer support as the latter reaches a position adjacent the ejector.

7, ln a device of the class described the con'ibination of aI horizontal carrier, a vertical shaft at the end of the carrier, a sprocket on said shaft extendingr over the carrier and having a. conveyer trained therearonnd, spaced supports on the conveyer, a frame concentric with said shaft, a crank operated by said shaft oscillating the frame across the carrier and an ejector on the frame movable` transversely of the path of the conveyer, and a crank geared to said shaft for reciprocating the ejector.

8. In a device of the class described the combination of a horizontal carrier, a conveyer movable in a curved path over the receiving end of the carrier, an ejector, a crank synchronized With the conveyer and operable to effect a slow movement of the ejector across the receiving end of the carrier in one direction and a quick movement thereof in the reverse direction, and mechanism for reciprocating the ejector transversely of the path of the conveyer, a predetermined number of times during its slow movement over the carrier.

GARLAND LUFKIN. 

